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You may select to add a new partition by pressing Enter at the highlighted line at the top, or move the
highlighted line over the partition you wish to change. When adding a new partition you will be prompted
where to insert the partition within the table. If you select a line containing an existing partition, you are first
asked if you wish to either CHANGE PARTITION INFORMATION or REMOVE THIS PARTITION. If you
want to remove the partition from the disk, select the REMOVE option. Otherwise, when selecting to
CHANGE, a window similar to the following will be displayed:

You may change any of the options shown. The Size of the partition can be set by either entering the
number of sectors (512-bytes each) or by entering the number of megabytes. In either case, the other will
be adjusted accordingly. You normally will not need to change the Partition type or Active flag, which
usually have no effect. However, if this is a system requiring a /boot filesystem you should not change
these settings, since the system firmware looks for boot partitions of this type.

When finished with your selections, press F3 or ESC to return to the

Change Partition Table

options.

Change Slice Tables

This option on the menu is really just a shortcut into the same options available when selecting disks to use for
installation. You have the same options of changing slice information or adding new slices to a disk, but must
use the

Select Disks to Use for Installation

option to move slices or other data between disks.

If there is more than one disk on the system, you will be asked to select a disk from the list. After doing so, a
screen similar to the following will appear:

You may select to add a new slice by pressing Enter at the highlighted line at the top, or move the
highlighted line over the slice you wish to change. When adding a new slice you will be prompted where to
insert the slice within the table. If you select a line containing an existing slice, you are first asked if you
wish to either CHANGE SLICE INFORMATION or REMOVE THIS SLICE. If you want to remove the
partition from the disk, select the REMOVE option. Otherwise, when selecting to CHANGE, a window
similar to the following will be displayed:

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